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Yue, Ai; Luo, Xia; Jia, Miqi; Wang, Boya; Gao, Qiufeng; Shi, Yaojiang; Wang, Shun – Infant and Child Development, 2021
We aimed to evaluate the validity of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires Edition 3 (ASQ-3) and the MacArthur communicative development inventory (CDI) as a screening measure for children at risk of language development delay in western rural China, by comparing them to the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III). We administered…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Language Skills, Questionnaires, Child Development
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Bridgett, David J.; Laake, Lauren M.; Gartstein, Maria A.; Dorn, Danielle – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The current study examined the influence of maternal characteristics on the development of infant smiling and laughter, a marker of early positive emotionality (PE) and how maternal characteristics and the development of infant PE contributed to subsequent maternal parenting. One hundred fifty-nine mothers with 4-month-old infants participated.…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Emotional Development, Child Development, Mothers
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Hakman, Melissa; Sullivan, Maureen – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between compliance in toddlers and maternal verbosity as well as the type of task. Mothers and their toddlers completed a warm-up task, a proactive toy clean-up task, and a prohibitive forbidden objects task. Mothers were assigned to one of two verbosity conditions (high versus low) and to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Toddlers, Compliance (Psychology), Child Behavior
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Guajardo, Nicole R.; Snyder, Gregory; Petersen, Rachel – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The present study included observational and self-report measures to examine associations among parental stress, parental behaviour, child behaviour, and children's theory of mind and emotion understanding. Eighty-three parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children participated. Parents completed measures of parental stress, parenting (laxness,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Child Behavior
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Hall, Wendy A.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Silburn, Sven R.; Parsons, Deborah E.; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Behavioural sleep problems (childhood insomnias) can cause distress for both parents and children. This paper reports a model describing predictors of high sleep problem scores in a representative population-based random sample survey of non-Aboriginal singleton children born in 1995 and 1996 (1085 girls and 1129 boys) in Western Australia.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
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Robert, Michele; Heroux, Gisele – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This cross-sectional study explored whether participation, from early childhood, in play involving different cognitive abilities predicts visuo-spatial achievement at ages 9, 12, and 15. Based on parental assessment, prior and present practice of spatial manipulation play was found to be consistently more frequent in boys than in girls; the…
Descriptors: Play, Females, Spatial Ability, Males